{"id":78145,"date":"2026-01-05T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78145\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:57:08","slug":"hundreds-compete-in-robotics-competition-in-hershey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78145\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds compete in robotics competition in Hershey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 Over 800 students and mentors from more than 20 states and Canada came out to the Hershey Lodge Sunday for the Vex V-5 Robotics Competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s a two-day event that featured 120 teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Participants in the \u201cPush Back\u201d game used robots they designed, built, and programmed. Mentors say it\u2019s about so much more than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe say that robots is a mechanism for everything else they get out of this, so their robots don\u2019t work the way they first planned and they have to overcome that and fix it, they\u2019re working with partners they\u2019ve never met and they develop life skills and it prepares them for whatever is next in their life,\u201d Jason Heller, founder and executive director of Brandywine Robots, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abc27.com\/streaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV devices;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV devices<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/abc27.com\/streaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:, and newer Samsung Smart TVs.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">, and newer Samsung Smart TVs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The competition continues Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 Over 800 students and mentors from more than 20 states and Canada came out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1516,39892,28,30,29,6651],"class_list":["post-78145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-hershey-lodge","tag-jason-heller","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-whtm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}